is anyone having success using the Laserpro Mercury with Lightburn?
Your profile says you have a 15 watt grbl machine. Which is yours?
http://laserprouk.com/laser-engraving-machines-mercury.html?LMCL=NwJBVz
If you have the one in the link, what kind of controller does it have. The site isn’t coming forward with it easily.
It’s a GCC controller. Which we don’t currently support. Though we are working on it.
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how far along are we with having LB work with the GCC controller?
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I would like to know what the progress is on the GCC support, especially on the Mercury 3 please…
Hi Adam, It’s a few years since your comment have you an update please?
We prioritize the devices we add to LightBurn based on how much demand there is for those devices. Unfortunately for the GCC controllers:
- We have only had requests from a few users and GCC themselves.
- It has been difficult getting the specific information we need to actually implement support from GCC.
So, in general there’s nothing new to report. At the time we were, in fact, working on it but things generally stalled for the reasons stated above.
Adam, thanks for the response. I would seem that GCC have engaged with another partner to cover their requirements. Maybe a campaign with the company and the user base would be a good idea, the numbers of users I presume is significant and if the demand exists then your justification to support would be logical.
I will approach them as a customer user and find out their position on this.
Thanks again for the input 
Out of curiosity, do you know what this other partner is?
I think it’s a company called Craft Edge at craftedge.com, their support product is Smart Print 2
Interesting. Makes sense though give GCC’s stuff is mostly HPGL (sort of anyways) based and that company mostly does vinyl cutters and such that use the same protocol.
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GCC Lasers use a print driver, much like Epilog, Trotec, and Universal Laser Systems. LB has a Print (keep colors) function, but it outputs vector lines at 1 pixel, which is too thick for the above lasers. The vector line thickness needs to be 0.001".
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Good morning, I have a GCC x252 laser and I purchased SCA LASER from http://craftedge.com/
Light years away from Lightburn in terms of functions and use. For example, I create the file and send it directly to the laser without direct control. I would have liked to be able to use at least LASER GRBL for movements and other things. I wrote to GCC and I will keep you updated
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I know you have not had many requests for GCC but i suspect this is because the first google results say it doesnt work so people give up. I know i would prefer to use Lightburn with mine as i do with the Red and Black laser so in a way call this another vote for trying to get this working
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This looks intresting, maybe a starting point to GCC support?
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I had a look, it seems to be written in spanish …but seriously im sure it makes sense to people who develop this stuff. Would be awesome though to have lightburn support as my wife doesnt use the GCC as she doesnt like using Coral or Inkscape to do her work and just likes the point and shoot of lightburn so uses our black and red chinese instead
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I too have a GCC Mercury. It uses a Windows print driver and I have to use an older version of Windows with Corel Draw to operate it. Corel is real clunky to use. I would upgrade the controller in it except GCC uses servos instead of steppers to drive it. I haven’t found a controller that supports servos.
Here’s Dropbox link to the Windows driver. You can also find it on jorlink.com if the Dropbox link doesn’t work. They have all the legacy drivers but you have set up a login etc. I think the printer driver would be the easiest path from LB especially since GCC relies on a parallel port. A USB to parallel printer cable does work fine so there isn’t anything wonky there to deal with. If LB can be made to work, it would breath new life into the older GCC printers, they are really rugged & well built & they use Synrad laser sources.
If you look at the servo drivers you might be able to see if they can accept a step + Dir signal, in which case, a Ruida control would work. It mostly comes down to the servo motor driver control signal.
The control board is all integrated as opposed to separate servo controllers. I have considered buying something like a Ruida and then 4 servo drivers. But all the tuning that goes with servos, higher cost of drivers & whatnot is more than I want to put into it. It would be easier & way cheaper to convert it to steppers.
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